Since a fire broke out in an engine room Sunday morning, the Carnival Triumph has been drifting off the coast of Mexico. A total of 3,143 passengers and 1,086 crew have been forced to make do with cold food, no hot water, sweltering indoor temperatures, and few working toilets. A tow boat is expected Thursday, after an initial plan to tow the ship to a port in Mexico was scrapped."

Monty's wife is on this cruise with a group of girlfriends. Crazy stuff.

Yeah, we haven't heard much at all and while I have enjoyed the light hearted banter in this thread, the situation is a bit worse than reported. My main concern was dumping the people off in Progreso to catch a flight back to the states. If any of you have been there, you know that personal safety is not guaranteed, even in numbers. My wife was supposed to be back yesterday and while I could make a few hookers and blow jokes, I am geniunely concerned only because we haven't heard anything other than a few text messages.

Hopefully they're doing okay. Maybe Monty will report back with some interesting stories about what a group of women do when they're stranded together on a ship with no artificial means of entertaining themselves.

Count on it. There are eight of them there together, all without their husbands.

On second thought, maybe they won't be sharing any stories at all. ;-)

I guess it's true the only real reason to go on a cruise if to get your stalker on.

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